How to read a local text file?

Question

I’m trying to write a simple text file reader by creating a function that takes in the file’s path and converts each line of text into a char array, but it’s not working.

Answer 1

In order to read a local file text through JavaScript using chrome, the chrome browser should run with the argument --allow-file-access-from-files to allow JavaScript to access local file, then you can read it using XmlHttpRequest like the following:

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
   if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4) {
       var allText = xmlhttp.responseText;          
            }
        };
xmlhttp.open("GET", file, false);
xmlhttp.send(null);